Niels Bohr on experience
Niels Bohr70 quotes“What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.”
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr Nothing exists until it is measured.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
Niels BohrNiels Bohr No paradox, no progress.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr Predition is risky, especially of the future.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr Truth and clarity are complementary.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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When you are grounded in the present – feeling your feelings, listening to your body, tasting your food, and expressing your ideas – you do not build up toxicity. You digest your experience as you go.
Debbie FordDebbie Ford Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.
Neale Donald WalschNeale Donald Walsch Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?
Debbie FordDebbie Ford Trust nothing but your own experience.
David BowieDavid Bowie To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we’re holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.
Debbie FordDebbie Ford When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.
Deepak ChopraDeepak Chopra Trust in the process you are now experiencing. Life is on your side. It is showing that to you now, though you may not be able to see it clearly at this time.
Neale Donald WalschNeale Donald Walsch As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn’t serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.
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